5 Dec 2024

Exploring New Zealand's everyday landscapes

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 5 December 2024
Banks Peninsula-based writer Matt Vance's new book, Innerland, explores how we see and shape the everyday landscapes of New Zealand.

Banks Peninsula-based writer Matt Vance's new book, Innerland, explores how we see and shape the everyday landscapes of New Zealand. Photo: Matt Vance

Forget the Southern Alps in winter. A new book from Banks Peninsula-based author, writer and filmmaker Matt Vance focuses on New Zealand's everyday - or perhaps less interesting - landscapes.

Matt's book, Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand, combines essay and memoir to highlight the ordinary - or run of the mill.

Matt Vance is Banks Peninsula-based and has bylines in New Zealand Listener, North & South, and 1964 Magazine. He says landscapes can be both real and imagined.

Some landscapes, he says, have a personal resonance to individuals thanks to personal experience.

Whereas others, because of our common DNA as human beings, have a collective appeal. Matt Vance joins Kathryn Ryan to explain more. 

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